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Last Updated: Wednesday, December 1st, 2004 HOME | Previous Page Gani’s Gulf War oil windfall suit stalled for 12 years, says judge   By Maxwell Oditta senior correspondent, Lagos   The suit filed at the Federal High Court by Chief Gani Fawehinmi on how the monetary proceeds from the sale of crude oil during the Gulf War crisis between August and December 1990 was disbursed, has been stalled for over 12 years. Even the defendants in the suit, the then Petroleum Resources Minister, Jubril Aminu, the late Governor of Central Bank, Abdulkadir Ahmed and former military President Ibrahim Babangida, have since left office. No lawyer has appeared in court for any of the defendants, since Kehinde Sofola, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, handed off the brief. Expressing disgust at the stagnation of the case, Justice Dan Abutu on Tuesday attributed it to the absence of parties to the suit in previous adjournments. He adjourned the trial of the case to February 22, 2005 on the request of Fawehinmi’s counsel, Sikiru Akinremi who told the court that the only witness on the plaintiff side, Fawehinmi, was not in court. He said Fawehinmi’s physician advised him against exerting himself for a while and promised to bring him to court in next hearing. On the protracted case, Akinremi told Daily Independent that limitation to the powers of the Judiciary during the military era made resolution in the case difficult. “ At a point in time, when there was an application by the defendant which was to be moved but got protracted because they couldn’t follow up the motion. The case has also been moved from court to court. And at the same time too, we were more interested in getting the defendants to court rather than just getting the judgement against them in absentia,” Akinyemi added. He pointed out the case was not a personal action. Rather it was an action against public officers.     Copyright� 2004. All Rights Reserved. Independent Newspapers Limited Block5, Plot 7D, Wempco Road, Ogba, P.M.B. 21777, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. www.independentng.com e-mail: [email protected] Designed By Powered By DNet.

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